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Well consider the polls and interviews the news services did of"street sentiment" in Arab countries since 9/11. A very hefty percentage of Arabs think bin-Laden did a good thing. They like bin-Laden. In fact I think the percentage in Kuwait was over 50%. I don't have the figues nor did I store them, but these polls were fairly commonplace since 9/11 and they showed a widespread belief among Arabs that the US is bad, that the US deserved 9/11, that the US should be destroyed, that the jihad against the West is good, and that they like or love Osama. As I said, I don't have the figures offhand, and there were many polls in different countries. I remember in particular one interview with a Kuwaiti pharmacist who said if he didn't have his store to attend he would off and join the jihad. So these views are not rare in the Arab world. I'm not saying they are majority views, but they are not negligible and they do represent a hefty slice of the population.